Benjamin Lieser

Benjamin Lieser serves as Assistant Professor of Music in
Applied Horn at the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts. He
holds degrees from Florida State University (BA, DM) and the University of
Cincinnati (MM). His teachers include William Capps, Randy Gardner, Michelle
Stebleton, Duane Duggar, and Randall Faust.

He is currently a member of the Brevard Symphony
Orchestra, the Bach Festival Society Orchestra, and the Walt Disney World
Orchestra. He has performed with the Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville
Symphony, the Cincinnati Opera, the Orlando Philharmonic and the Tallahassee
Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Lieser has been a featured soloist with the OFUNAM
orchestra in Mexico City, and performed as a regional artist at the Central
Florida Horn Workshops, The Southeast Horn Workshops, and the International
Horn Symposiums.

Previously, Benjamin taught at Stetson University in Deland,
FL, and has served as a secondary music educator in both public and private
schools in Jacksonville and Orlando.

The purpose of this course is to provide music educators with basic information concerning teaching methods and
performance techniques for brass instruments, specifically trumpet and horn. Students will follow a course of
study that will enable them to teach beginning students at the elementary or secondary school levels and to
continue to provide them with an accepted, organized approach to learning and developing brass techniques and skills.

This course is an exploration of Western Art Music (often called “Classical”
music). As musicians, we regard Western Art Music with respect to the traditions and developments in
Europe beginning in the Medieval Ages (circa 1000AD). Our study will examine music from this time
through the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century, where we will develop an
understanding of the musical principles, instruments, musical forms, and techniques associated with each of
these historical phases. There are no prerequisites for this course and you are not expected or required to
have any prior musical knowledge of the subject.